Vendor manager in a chaotic environment sounds like it would be perfect for raking in the kickbacks. The only way such a position would be appealing to me would be if I could do it in the most unethical manner possible.

The long hours don't exist. Some of the vendors are probably NCEP, NWS, and ECMWF. I'm really not sure what that guy did in the entirety. Mostly he just reminded me to put my project hours into the system.

We still need a dev-ops engineer. Feel free to interpret that title as you like.

Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.They called it The Prayer, its answer was lawMommy come back 'cause the water's all gone

heh, no i am stuck in some weird situation where i jumped through so many hoops with the 3+ month onboarding process to get my current position that I can't bring myself to cut bait and run until I have discovered what my entire job entails. I am 10 weeks in and still have not contributed anything or really figured out what I will be able to contribute (assuming I can contribute at all).

Yeah so ~25% or ~$110K bump initial bump in property value sounds reasonable given a $450K median home sale price. If you hold on to it longer, though, you could potentially see a doubling in value within 5 or 6 years given how many people may eventually be employed there.

Took the last 10 days off from applying for jobs...assuming most decisions are going to be made in January anyway. Will go back to full time searching then.

This sucks.

My contract wrapped up on the 28th, so I'm back to the grind as well. Good luck. I'm trying to stay out of the east side jobs, easily 80% of the postings are Redmond/Bellevue/Kirkland. That commute suuuuucks from West Seattle. Nothing better than 3+ hours commuting per day.

Wife is furloughed now. Their department had 2 more weeks of funding than other areas, so she just stopped work and getting paid on Monday. It's kind of awesome having a stay at home wife, but this shit needs to end. We'll be fine, but I'd rather not eat into savings for how ever long this tantrum lasts.

Looks like I'm getting extra vacation for my emergency Manchester trip. This is fine, but I'd rather just have money. I have enough vacation. Give me some sort of bullshit award or soemthing.

I'm the total opposite. Even when we get authorized for extra overtime pay, I specifically request comp time instead. I have plenty of money, but I blow my vacation almost as fast as I get it.

Also, despite our main HR department telling me so, looks like they continued funding my job using a different pot of money after the shut down. So not actually getting any of my two week vacation that started the same day as the shut down back. Also, have to keep showing up to work. I never get furloughed. :(

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"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor."-Stephen Colbert

I got an interview next week with a company that is a mile from my house. I cannot tell you all enough how excited I am for the possibility of a 15 minute walk to work instead of a 60-75 minute bus ride.

I got an interview next week with a company that is a mile from my house. I cannot tell you all enough how excited I am for the possibility of a 15 minute walk to work instead of a 60-75 minute bus ride.

That is awesome! Hope it works out for you- especially since the viaduct goes away in less than 24 hours, which will utterly and completely fuck traffic in/out/around/near Seattle for the next century.

I have been using Dice/Indeed/LinkedIn/StateUnemploymentPage for most of my job searches. Finally got around to completing my profile in ZipRecruiter, and am damned glad I did. Have one interview scheduled, another place has asked for interview times (and is like 4 miles from my house...ONE TIME!), and a third has asked for salary requirements** and if an 8-5 schedule works for me. I am sure much of it is because the new year has brought new projects and full budgets, but I vastly prefer the interface on ZR and feel like their setup works well for employers as well.

On Indeed, for example, maybe a third of the listings allow you to apply directly with your Indeed profile (and the resume on file there), while the rest take you offsite to either other third party processors, or to the company's own website. You almost always have to create a fucking profile, and then get on with the actual application. ZipRecruiter is all one click to apply. I fucking love it.

**Anyone have advice on answering questions about salary? I don't want to scare anyone off with overly high requirements, but I also don't want to take 30% under market value if I can possibly avoid it. Any HR folks have insight on how this works on your end?

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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM

Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood

Who the hell taught you how to write? Fuck, that sentence is like internet transmitted face-attacking knives. Jesus. schild

**Anyone have advice on answering questions about salary? I don't want to scare anyone off with overly high requirements, but I also don't want to take 30% under market value if I can possibly avoid it. Any HR folks have insight on how this works on your end?

My schtick is usually along the lines of "I love what I do and the the people I work with are a ton of fun but I feel like I have so much more to offer above and beyond the scope of my current position. I am not looking to make a lateral move my current salary is x for doing y and my hope is that that any offer I receive will reflect increased responsibilities."

Other than the tons of spam (which you can opt out of I think) I also thought ziprecruiter was pretty good. I love the feedback they give you on people viewing your application.